Psychoactive Drugs and Harm Reduction: From Faith to Science

Edited by NICK HEATHER, ALEX WODAK, ETHAN A. NADELMANN and PAT O'HARE

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Whurr Publishers London

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Preface Dedication Contributors Acknowledgements Part I: Concepts and Definitions Chapter 1 Drug use and harm reduction: responding to the challenge, John Strang Chapter 2 Harm reduction: does it lead where its proponents imagine? Stephen Mugford Chapter 3 Progressive legalizers, progressive prohibitionists and the reduction of drug-related harm, Ethan A Nadelmann Part II: Perspectives on Harm Reduction Chapter 4 Reduction of alcohol- and drug-related harm in Australia: a Government Minister's perspective, Peter Staples Chapter 5 Harm minimisation and public health: an historical perspective, Virginia Berridge
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Achieving a reduction in drug-related harm through education, Julian Cohen Chapter 7 Rituals of regulation: controlled and uncontrolled drug use in natural settings, Jean-Paul C. Grund, Charles D. Kaplan and Marten de Vries Part HI: Harm-reduction Policies Chapter 8 Impediments to the global adoption of harm-reduction policies, David Hawks Chapter 9 Drug policies and problems: the promise and pitfalls of crossnational comparison, RobertJ. MacCoun, AaronJ. Saiger, James P.Kahan and Peter Reuter Chapter 10 Law enforcement as a harm-reduction strategy in Rotterdam and Merseyside, Duncan Chappell, Tjibbe Reitsma, Derek O 'Connell and Heather Strang Chapter 11 Prohibition as a necessary stage in the acculturation of foreign drugs, Erik Fromberg Chapter 12 A heroin trial for the Australian Capital Territory? An overview of feasibility research, Gabrielle Bammer, Bob Douglas, Michael Moore and Duncan Chappell Part IV: Applications to Specific Substances _J^LL jjl_ __*!**103 77_

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Reduction of smoking-related harm: the scope for nicotine replacement, Michael AH. Russell

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Application of harm-reduction principles to the treatment of alcohol problems, Nick Heather Chapter 15 184

Prospects of harm reduction for psychostimulants, Patricia G. Erickson Chapter 16 211

Cannabis: legal reform, medicinal use and harm reduction, John P. Morgan, Diane Riley and Gregory B. Chesher Chapter 17 230

Ecstasy in the United Kingdom: recreational drug use and subcultural change, Peter McDermott, Alan Matthews, Pat O'Hare and Andrew Bennett Part V: Harm Reduction and Developing Countries Chapter 18 247

Harm reduction or harm aggravation? The impact of the developed countries' drug policies in the developing world, Anthony Henman Chapter 19 257

Harm-reduction policies and programmes in developing countries, Naotaka Shinfuku Chapter 20 266

Implementing policies to reduce harm associated with legal drug use in the developing countries of the Pacific: who can help? Sally Casswell Chapter 21 280

An evolving public health crisis: HIV infection among injecting drug users in developing countries, Alex Wodak, Robert Fisher and Nick Crofts Part VI: Harm Reduction and HIV/AIDS Chapter 22 297

AIDS, injecting drug use and harm reduction, Don C. Desjarlais and Samuel R. Friedman

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Assessing the risk of HIV-1 transmission in correctional centres, Matt Gaugbwin and David Vlahov Chapter 24 Peer-based user groups: the Australian experience, David Herkt Index 331 320